July 28

2024 Calendar

July 28 is the 209th day of the year (210th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 156 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

450 – Theodosius II, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1401)
1057 – Pope Victor II (b. 1018)
1230 – Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)
1285 – Keran, Queen of Armenia
1527 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador (b. 1460)
1540 – Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1495)
1614 – Felix Platter, Swiss doctor and autobiographical writer (b. 1536)
1631 – Guillen de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish playwright (b. 1569)
1655 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet (b. 1619)
1677 – Abraham Cowley, English poet (b. 1618)
1685 – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
1718 – Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
1741 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
1746 – John Peter Zenger, American publicist (b. 1697)
1750 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685)
1762 – George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
1794 – Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1758)
1794 – Louis de Saint-Just, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1867)
1794 – Georges Couthon, French politician (b. 1755)
1808 – Selim III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1762)
1818 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
1835 – Edouard Mortier, duc de Trevise, French general and politician (b. 1768)
1836 – Nathan Mayer Rothschild, English banker and financier (b. 1777)
1842 – Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
1844 – Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768)
1849 – Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
1850 – Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Austrian businessman and banker (b. 1774)
1869 – Jan Evangelista Purkyne, Czech anatomist and physiologist (b. 1787)
1875 – Jean Baptista von Schweitzer, German dramatist (b. 1833)
1878 – George Law Curry, American politician (b. 1820)
1895 – Edward Beecher, American theologian (b. 1803)
1899 – Antonio Guzman Blanco, President of Venezuela (b. 1829)

1901 – 2000

1917 – Waldemar Tietgens, German rower (b. 1879)
1930 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1862)
1930 – John DeWitt, American hammer thrower (b. 1881)
1933 – Nishinoumi Kajiro III, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1890)
1934 – Marie Dressler, actress (b. 1868)
1935 – Meletius IV of Constantinople (b. 1871)
1942 – William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)
1944 – Ralph H. Fowler, British astronomer (b. 1889)
1957 – Edith Abbott, social worker, educator, and writer (b. 1876)
1965 – Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese writer of detective novels (b. 1894)
1965 – Sheikh Attallah Suleimat, Jordanian ruler (b. 1875)
1967 – Karl W. Richter, American aviator (b. 1942)
1968 – Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel Prize winner (b. 1879)
1969 – Frank Loesser, composer (b. 1910)
1971 – Myril Hoag, baseball player (b. 1908)
1972 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
1982 – Keith Green, American gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1953)
1996 – Marguerite "Marge" Ganser, singer (Shangri-Las) (b. 1948)
1997 – Seni Pramoj, Thai politician (b. 1905)
1998 – Zbigniew Herbert, Polish poet and writer (b. 1924)
1999 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist (b. 1911)
2000 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (b. 1918)

From 2001

2002 – Arthur John Porter Martin, English chemist (b. 1910)
2003 – Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish Senator and campaigner for the disabled (b. 1918)
2004 – Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)
2004 – Francis Crick, English chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)
2004 – Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
2006 – Patrick Allen, British actor (b. 1927)
2008 – Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese actress and singer (b. 1977)
2011 – Abdul Fatah Younis, Libyan military commander (b. 1944)
2013 – Mustafa Adrisi, 3rd Vice President of Uganda (b. 1922)
2013 – Ersilio Tonini, Italian cardinal (b. 1914)
2013 – Rita Reys, Dutch jazz singer (b. 1924)
2013 – William Scranton, American diplomat and politician, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1917)
2013 – Eileen Brennan, American actress (b. 1932)
2014 – Margot Adler, American writer and journalist (b. 1946)
2014 – James Shigeta, American actor (b. 1930)
2014 – Yvette Lebon, French actress (b. 1910)
2014 – Paul D. McGowan, American politician (b. 1947)
2014 – Theodore Van Kirk, American soldier, pilot and navigator (b. 1921)
2014 – Monty M. Wyche, American judge (b. 1926)
2014 – Sally Farmiloe, British actress (b. 1954)
2015 – Edward Natapei, Prime Minister of Vanuatu (b. 1954)
2015 – Jan Kulczyk, Polish businessman (b. 1950)
2015 – David Faber, Polish Holocaust survivor and author (b. 1928)
2016 – Mahasweta Devi, Indian writer (b. 1926)
2016 – Emile Derlin Zinsou, President of Benin (b. 1918)
2017 – Enzo Bettiza, Croatian-Italian novelist, journalist and politician (b. 1927)
2017 – Charlie Gard, British infant, focus of life support and parental rights case (b. 2016)
2017 – Inder Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1973)
2017 – John G. Morris, American photo editor (b. 1916)
2017 – Warren Keith Urbom, American judge (b. 1925)
2018 – Kora Jackowska, Polish rock music singer and voice actress (b. 1951)
2018 – Bruce Lietzke, American golfer (b. 1951)
2019 – Eduardo Gómez, Spanish actor and comedian (b. 1951)
2019 – George Hilton, Uruguayan-Italian actor (b. 1934)
2019 – Vladimir Kara-Murza Sr., Russian journalist and television host (b. 1959)
2019 – Loek van Mil, Dutch baseball player (b. 1984)
2019 – Jaipal Reddy, Indian politician (b. 1942)
2019 – Ruth de Souza, Brazilian actress (b. 1921)
2023 – José Paulino Gomes, Brazilian supercentenarian (b. 1895)

Births

1901 – 1950

1901 – Harry Bridges, Australian-American labor leader (d. 1990)
1901 – Rudy Vallée, American singer (d. 1986)
1901 – Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player, coach and manager (d. 1979)
1902 – Albert Namatjira, Australian artist (d. 1959)
1902 – Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher (d. 1994)
1903 – Roger Mynors, British classical philologist (d. 1989)
1904 – Selwyn Lloyd, British politician (d. 1978)
1904 – Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist (d. 1990)
1907 – Earl Tupper, American inventor (d. 1983)
1909 – Malcolm Lowry, English writer (d. 1957)
1914 – Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)
1915 – Charles Hard Townes, American physicist (d. 2015)
1915 – Frankie Yankovic, American polka musician (d. 1998)
1916 – David Brown, American producer (d. 2010)
1920 – Andrew V. McLaglen, English-American movie and television director (d. 2014)
1922 – Jacques Piccard, Belgian-Swiss undersea explorer (d. 2008)
1923 – Kent Lee, American Vice Admiral (d. 2017)
1924 – Irving Burgie, American songwriter (d. 2019)
1925 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician (d. 2011)
1925 – Harry Haddock, Scottish footballer (d. 1998)
1925 – Juan Schiaffino, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2002)
1927 – Ermes Muccinelli, Italian footballer (d. 1994)
1927 – John Ashbery, American poet (d. 2017)
1929 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
1930 – Jean Roba, Belgian comics writer (d. 2006)
1930 – Firoza Begum, Bangladeshi singer (d. 2014)
1931 – Karl-Friedrich Haas, German athlete
1933 – Charlie Hodge, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2016)
1934 – Bud Luckey, American cartoonist, animator, actor and comedian (d. 2018)
1935 – Ernie Bowman, American baseball player (d. 2019)
1937 – Francis Veber, French director and screenwriter
1937 – John Anthony Walker, American naval officer (d. 2014)
1938 – Luis Aragonés, Spanish football manager (d. 2014)
1938 – Alberto Fujimori, former President of Peru
1938 – Chuan Leekpai, Thai politician
1938 – Ian McCaskill, Scottish weather forecaster (d. 2016)
1938 – Arsen Dedic, Croatian singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1939 – Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor (d. 2017)
1941 – Peter Cullen, Canadian voice actor
1941 – Michael Mukasey, 81st Attorney General of the United States
1941 – Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
1943 – Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
1943 – Richard Wright, English keyboardist (Pink Floyd) (d. 2008)
1943 – Judy Martz, American politician, 22nd Governor of Montana (d. 2017)
1943 – Mike Bloomfield, American blues guitarist
1945 – Jim Davis, American cartoonist
1946 – Jonathan Edwards, American singer-songwriter
1946 – Linda Kelsey, American actress
1947 – Peter Cosgrove, 26th Governor-General of Australia
1947 – Barbara Ferrell, American athlete
1947 – Sally Struthers, American actress
1948 – Georgia Engel, American actress (d. 2019)
1950 – Isidore Battikha, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Homs, Syria
1950 – Tom Cotcher, Scottish actor

1951 – 1975

1951 – Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
1951 – Doug Collins, American basketball player and coach
1951 – Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician (d. 2019)
1952 – Vajiralongkorn, King of Thailand
1954 – Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (d. 2013)
1954 – Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
1954 – Steve Morse, American guitarist
1954 – Bruce Abbott, American actor
1955 – Nikolay Zimyatov, Russian cross-country skier
1956 – Luca Barbareschi, Italian movie and theatre actor, producer and director
1957 – Scott Pelley, American journalist
1958 – Terry Fox, Canadian athlete (d. 1981)
1958 – Michael Hitchcock, American screenwriter, actor and producer
1960 – Alexandre Czerniatynski, Belgian footballer
1960 – Yoichi Takahashi, Japanese cartoonist
1960 – Harald Lesch, German astrophysicist
1960 – Jonathan Gold, American food critic (d. 2018)
1961 – Luiz Fernando Carvalho, Brazilian director
1961 – Yannick Dalmas, French racing driver
1961 – Aleksandr Kurlovich, Soviet weight lifter
1964 – Lori Loughlin, American actress
1965 – Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer
1965 – Delfeayo Marsalis, American trombonist
1965 – Daniela Mercury, Brazilian singer
1966 – Miguel Angel Nadal, Spanish footballer
1967 – Brent Saulsbury, American musician and composer
1969 – Alexis Arquette, American actress (d. 2016)
1969 – Garth Snow, American ice hockey player
1970 – Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist and songwriter
1970 – Isabelle Brasseur, Canadian ice skater
1971 – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi leader of the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
1973 – Clara Ng, Indonesian writer
1973 – Marc Dupré, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 – Justin Lee Collins, British comedian
1974 – Alexis Tsipras, Greek politician, former Prime Minister of Greece
1974 – Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
1975 – Leonor Watling, Spanish actress and singer

From 1976

1977 – Emanuel Ginobili, Argentine basketball player
1977 – Pascale Bruderer, Swiss politician
1977 – Aki Berg, Finnish ice hockey player
1978 – Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer, songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer
1980 – Noel Sullivan, Welsh singer and actor (Hear'Say)
1981 – Michael Carrick, English footballer
1981 – Willie Green, American basketball player and coach
1982 – Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir, Icelandic singer and actress
1983 – Dhanush, Indian actor and singer
1983 – Juan Guaidó, Venezuelan politician
1984 – Ali Krieger, American soccer player
1984 – Zach Parise, American ice hockey player
1985 – Mathieu Debuchy, French footballer
1985 – Darren Murphy, Irish footballer
1987 – Pedro Rodríguez Ledesma, Spanish footballer
1987 – Sumire, Japanese fashion model (d. 2009)
1988 – Ayla Brown, American basketball player and coach
1990 – Soulja Boy, American rapper
1992 – Spencer Boldman, American actor
1993 – Hannah Lochner, Canadian actress
1993 – Cher Lloyd, English singer and rapper
1993 – Harry Kane, English footballer

Deaths

Observances

Peru: Independence Day
Faroe Islands: Eve of the feast day of Saint Olaf.
San Marino: Liberation Day
World Hepatitis Day (after birthday of Baruch Samuel Blumberg)